Nanosystems industry expert to deliver Discovery Lecture at Purdue

March 15, 2013

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A nanotechnology industry leader
will deliver a Discovery Lecture Series talk next week on advancements in
designing computers the size of a human cell.

James C. Ellenbogen, chief scientist of the Nanosystems
Group and Emerging Technologies at MITRE Corp., will speak at 3 p.m. Thursday (March
21) in the Burton D. Morgan Center for Entrepreneurship, Room 121. The talk
will provide an overview of ongoing work in his company's 20-year effort in
nanotechnology engineering focused on the ultra-tiny molecular scale.

The lecture, titled "Integrated Nanosystems For
Ultra-Miniaturized Computers … and More," is free and open to the public.
Sponsors for his Discovery Lecture are Lilly Endowment, Discovery Park and the
Birck Nanotechnology Center.

"Dr. Ellenbogen is noted for his unique contributions
to molecular electronics and his efforts over two decades toward building
electronic computers integrated on the nanoscale," said Ali Shakouri, the Mary
Jo and Robert L. Kirk Director of the Birck Nanotechnology Center and a Purdue
professor of electrical and computer engineering. "He
also has been an innovative mentor in the nanotechnology field for grooming the
next generation of scientists and engineers."

Through a $1 million gift to Discovery Park from Indianapolis-based
Lilly Endowment, Purdue launched the Discovery Lecture Series in 2006 for
bringing prominent speakers to campus.

Ellenbogen, who
taught at several universities before joining MITRE in 1984, has focused
on advancing the science and technology for designing and developing
nanotechnology-enabled ultra-miniaturized systems. Specifically, he has led
efforts in ultra-small electronic computer processors integrated on the
nanometer scale for computers approximately the size of a human cell.

In 2011 that research resulted in the realization of the world's first nanoelectronic computer processor. He recently has collaborated
in the development of high-performance, nanotechnology-enabled portable power
systems and in the discovery of new laws of physics that provide a path to the
rapid design of nanocircuits and toward the more rapid modeling of materials on
all scales.

Ellenbogen has
authored a number of highly cited papers on nanoelectronics and nanotechnology
and is the inventor or co-inventor of key patented nanotechnology innovations.
Based on his own technical work and that of his MITRE collaborators, he has
assisted the government in planning and guiding a number of advanced and
emerging technology research and development programs.

Ellenbogen
co-founded the MITRE Student Program in 1989, and he continues to coordinate
that corporate program for mentoring high school students and college undergraduates
in science, technology, engineering and applied mathematics.

In that role, he
has helped place more than 800 different students in paid summer technical
positions across the company. Within the Nanosystems Group, he has personally
mentored more than 130 students. In 2005 he received Washington Academy
of Sciences Merit and Distinction in the Engineering Sciences Award.

Ellenbogen
received his master's degree in
chemical physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1972 and his doctorate in
that area from the University of Georgia in 1977. He has given many
presentations throughout the world on nanotechnology and nanoelectronics.

MITRE, which was formed in 1958 as a not-for-profit
corporation under the leadership of C.W. Halligan, has principal locations in
Bedford, Mass., and McLean, Va. As a national resource, the company applies its
expertise in systems engineering, information technology, operational concepts and
enterprise modernization to address its sponsors' critical needs.